These days swearing has become accepted, words that were taboo only 10 years ago, and never uttered on TV, a daily occurrence. The F word is probably the best example. Now it seems part of everyday acceptable language,

There’s nothing more depressing that listening to groups of teenagers or their elders F..ing at each other, children on their way to school and youngsters just out of nappies using it at the top of their voices, no one bats an eyelid. A recent documentary on TV showing children swearing at teachers, it’s accepted with no repercussions .

If the worst obscenities the language can muster, have been reduced to common parlance, we defiantly need to create some new swear words, we must be more creative and dream up some truly vile words to use as expletives in our everyday banter.

The question remains, have we reach the top of the scale in terms of swear words.

K

Its not so much the langauage its the depressing way they dress
with lack of respect.
Its a waste of time suggesting they look smart or take a pride
its wrinkled frayed worn out VIet Cong lookalike combat fatigues
all the way soaking up rainwater in the high street as they shuffle from one dingy drinking den to another late at nite.
Marks and spencers is even sellig a camofluage jungle hat for men!!!!
No one is going to even attempt to screw such rubbish.

At the end of Bozos message the following 'bait/lure' appears:

"Jessica Simpson soaps up and washes a car"

is this some evil trap set by the Government to catch the perverts???

Who the f**k is Jessica Simpson?

Seriously, apart from the swearing at teachers bit, things were no different in my boyhood. We never swore when girls were about, though we sometimes found their use of Anglo-Saxon was more repetitive and forceful than ours!

I suspect the answer was and is shock value-some people never quite grow out of letting it slip out to see the reactions. I think if swearing really was as socially acceptable as Ketta fears, the deputy Labour leader race will be peppered with a few choice words.

Equally, why do I put the * in my own expletives on here? It isn't just to save Big John or Ray's Mum needless work-it isn't quite as acceptable as some think!

Teachers could solve this by giving the offending child, instead of 100 lines, find 10 alternative phrases for what you just called me, that could be written in O levels, and then write 10 lines on why each is inapplicable to me!


Steve M

These kids really cant see that its all so boring.
They are not doing anything that wasnt done in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ever heard of Punk Rock and Grunge rock?They have absolutely zero creativity
and zero imaginations.
Music has been killed off.
Telly and Radio are all rubbish.
Overcrowding and the 1000 channels with nothing on syndrome
have coarsened the sensibilities in Susan Sontags words
so that near everything becomes hum drum and meaningless.
If the 1970s were the decade or boredom then the 2000s are the decade
of stimulation unto mindlessness.
If the country doesnt produce then its going to end up like Eritrea-whereever that is.
We are damm near collapse already.
Buying and selling each others houses just aint gonna cut it.
As is likley when petrol rises to £1.50 or more,interest rates
rise by a further 2-3 points then the manure is really going to hit the fan as folks'ambitions are bitterly trounced.
Watch out for a huge rise in family tensions and child abuse,I mean spanking as tempers become frayed and parents "lose it"with all the bills and pressures.I know Ive seen it before in the early 1980s.

A High Court Judge in Australia made a statement regarding the use of the F word. His opinion was that the word cropped up in a lot of films and telivision programs. He further commented to the increased use of the word in society and felt it was used so often that it was bwcoming an every day word and in his opinion was no loger as offensive as it once was.

To further comment on this topic, yesterday I received a comedy clip via e-mail from a friend. The title of the clip was Sesame Street Adult Version.

The clip featured children and young teens standing around a puppet who came out of a rubbish bin. The puppet used the magic word regularly and even sang it in a song. I was drawn to the kids sitting around the puppet and thinking to my self how moronic this person was to come out with the language he did in front of kids.

I then thought that I was being prudish because the kids are probably used to the F word and use it conversations themselves. I suppose we oldies just have to get used to it because it in not going to go away. I feel that films and television has had a large affect as to the general use of the word and particularly movies coming from America where it seems to be cool to call someone a Mother F'er.

I remember that to use the F word at junior school mean't that the person who uttered it was ostrasised for going beyond the final frontier. It was regarded as the ultimate thing to say. How things have changed.
At senior school to be heard uttering any expletive resulted in severe punishment.

I said it once at School. I was in first form-year 7. I was playing softball and was first baseman. A kid hit the ball and charged to first base crashing into me as I tried to catch the ball.

I shouted it out in shock at being run into. Four double handers followed by one of the worst teachers in school. Not as hard as the right cross I gave him some years later.